The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-06-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
LAMAR is Jersey cattle fan.

'NsP'"" Va sno NoTnhn helchBtaR
has closed.
IL tho Grand Canyon OF Colorado snow
10 still ton feet deep.
coFrEE isn't settled yet speculators
arc still stirring II up
CorToN blooms are making their appear
ance In West Tennessee.
hARE manuscripts In the libraries OF
Paris are TO be photographed
HAVANA, KAN, has young lady who
watches over lb,o00 silk worms.
KELLY, OF motor fame, says ho Is getting
ured. 30 are the stockholders.
The Chicago lawyers are holding coro-
ner's Inquest on the late whoat deal.
IT is said that three fourth Of the women
In New York city are wage earners.
BULLET aimed at Miss Geary, OF st
Louis, lodged in her newspaper hustle.
Mn LKss, Of Cumru, Pa, sold sixteen
dollars worth OF cherries OF ono tree.
ALL hope Of getting natural gas in
Cleveland, o., is practically abandoned.
Ahoso tho presents at recent Adrian
thich) wedding were eight pickle casters.
VETERAN who fought under Blucher mt
Waterloo died in Brooklyn the other day.
TnE makingof shoes on contract In Penn.
Aylyania prisons will cease In November
next
0ENEnaL MEspE's monument In Fair.
mount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedicat-
cd October ~.
Ex-QuEES lsABrLLA, Of Spain, now In
Paris, u spending money at tho rate Of
10000 annually
Tnn Prussian minister OF education re
fuses TO admit women TO the universities
or medical schools.
TnERE lisa general belief that the tobacco
tar win be abolished early IN tho coming
session Of Congress.
BnsAacK's two boys put In more hours
OF solid labor every day than any two
young mon In the fatherland.
MhE. chEisrisE NILSSON, the Countess
Miranda, now owns tho house where Ad.
mirat Coiigny was murdered.
'sTHE.man-who-ran-Ao 80 fast that.thc.w wind
was-lcft-bchind,n nis the name OF a recently
elected chief Of the Sioux tribe
A COMMISSION 10 inquire into the ohonom.
nof spiritualism has been appointed
by the University OF Pcnnsyivania
1oSpoy's latest dynamite sensation, nf.
ter thorough investigation, turns out 10 be
waicr-damaHcd nre.craclscr fright.
THE cottage Of the late General Grant is
being rertted and II ls said will be occu.
pied part ofthc summer by Mrs Grant.
MOSQUITOES according to a rcccn, bulle-
tin Of the United States Fish Commission,
arc deadly enemy to young brook trout.
TnE postmaster at Scott Bar. Cal,
stands seven feet high IN his siockinRs--
tho inllest postmaster iu tho United Statos.
WILsoH WApDiNon.M, Of Connecticut, is
tho largest land.holdcr In the United
States He owns tho title 10 two million
acres.
Mus. RosESnuRo, OF the Treasury DE.
partment at Washington, is the best conn.
ierfcit detccior in the world. She gets
$500 a year,
TuE library OF the British Museum now |
contains moro than 100000 hooks, which |
occupy three miles lnoal OF bookcases
eight feet high.
THE pension ofticc at Topeka, Kan, dis |
bursed s9ii ,g9Os7 during the past quarter. |
There are 2s,079 honorabiy discharged sol. |
.diers on the roll
KANSAS boasts OF having the tallcst man /
in this country MI ~ unsdon ~, =.
seven feet, three aud n half inches hIyh
Ho lives at Lalin,
A SMALL train has been safely run. with |
out annoyance In tho way OF smoke aud
cinders. on tho pennsvIvania r.,t,,a,, ,s,,h
petroleum Us fuel.
Tur laryo., na,a,a 49,,
season Ia claimed TO bo one cnnturcd n,
BlllinRsport. N. l.. which YcItbcd nins
and a quarter pounds
A ms In Nanvoo m cl.,rrs - h.,.
span Of mules thai were usnd q, han,,na
stone for building tho Mormon temnIo IL
that place fifty years ago.
MANurI. Nori- an aqed Frencb ,,anaa,.a
residing NJ Laconia. n. n fonstcd on
pound OF raw bcefsteah. a few days ago
and died within half An hour.
A STATUE OF President Arthur ia 10 bo
erected In Madison Square, New \ ork Tho
sum OF sSBOO0 will be needed, of which
$4,000 has been already raised.
liz a garden at Woodland, Cal. Is grow
ing a clump Of wheat which is n curiosity
because Of tho fact that lii stalks have
spread from one kernel OF wheat.
In tho great Eastern institutions ~
learning they fully appreciate the value Of
gymnastics Harvard's gymnasium cost
$1,000, Yaie's sle5,OoO, and Columbla's
slb6,0OO.
The new coins which are now TO be is
sued In England In honor of the Queens
luc,ee, pear tnc nkeness OF her Majesty,
WIN ~, = s''iaii crown ABOVE tue WIDOWS cap
"nu se,i'
ir penooves Boston girls TO carry extra :
magn'iying glasses wnen visiting IN the ]
~ ono y, 'no Yea, oroasures
a.h"sss 'uno''''' 'o' o'aoA'orry inc ,
V'.e. ny -
ALfhhp ouLLf tne New hork railroad
presented check OF hfty thou